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rmcellig · Posted: Mon 09 Jul 2012, 10:52 Post subject: Tools of the trade

I have been using Puppy 5.2.8 for almost all of what I want to do with it. Coming from the Mac side (since 1988), Puppy has been an eye opener for me in a positive way! I'm still learning and as always, I am SO thankful for the help and assistance from this forum.

I have tried other distros but so far Puppy is the only one that installs quickly, is super quick to use and back up. I love those features!

Here are the tools I use in my everyday computer stuff. Aside from the obvious using the internet via my browser of choice, here goes:

browser: doesn't really matter to me
arecord (command line tool)
asunder
audacity
avidemux
ffconvert
filezilla

That's about it for my day to day arsenal of tools.

What are you using in your everyday Puppy computer life?

battleshooter · Joined: 14 May 2008 Posts: 1006 Location: Australia

stu90 · Posted: Tue 10 Jul 2012, 00:03 Post subject:

Things i tend to always have open / running:

Mplayer
Terminal
Text editor
Web browser

Im always tweaking and changing things so use a lot of bash scripts for various tasks as well.

Monsie · Joined: 01 Dec 2011 Posts: 464 Location: Kamloops BC Canada

Hi all,

Here's my top five in the correct order, I think...

It's nice to know that Puppy is not shy of programs or features even if I don't make use of them all of the time.... Plus there is a wealth of extra utilities, games, and other software available on the Forum thanks to the interest, involvement, and dedication on the part of many hard working people who make up our community. Cool

I am sometimes amazed at what is available for Puppy...

Monsie

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1225

Good thread.

Here are mine (there are quite a few);

Browser (usually Opera plus either Firefox or Seamonkey)
File manager (Midnight Commander, plus a graphical one such as either Rox or Thunar)
Utility for burning data and ISOs to CD or DVD
Text editor (Geany's pretty good although I'd prefer one with a spell checker like Textpad for Windows)
Word processor; Abiword does pretty much everything I want
Spreadsheet; Gnumeric likewise
Image viewer; gqview or geeqie is fine
Multimedia player like xmms or gxine
Graphical calculator like GCalcTool or Calcoo
PDF file reader like epdfview
Database (Portabase is excellent for what I need).

That's it really. I play the occasional game and sometimes do some picture editing (almost never anything mtpaint can't handle).

linuxbear · Posted: Tue 10 Jul 2012, 15:09 Post subject:

on my E17 shelf are two browsers, a file manager (dolphin) and a terminal icon. That gives you an idea of what I use most often.